She was told her twin sons wouldn't survive. Texas law made her give birth anyway.

[Nevilledog]

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/11/texas-abortion-law-texas-abortion-ban-nonviable-pregnancies/

DALLAS — Miranda Michel’s eyes popped open on the operating table, panic gripping her body. Was she too late?

Doctors had said her twins might only survive two or three minutes. She didn’t know if they’d already been born, how much time had passed, if she had missed it entirely, if they were already gone.

During the two-hour surgery, as doctors sawed through scar tissue from three previous C-sections, Miranda tried to fight the sedation, waking in alarm, then slipping back to sleep after her partner and mother-in-law assured her the babies were still safe inside her.

Miranda’s prognosis was as clear today as when she first heard it, four months ago: a zero percent chance of viability, for either twin. But Texas’ new abortion laws, which make no exception for lethal fetal anomalies, required Miranda to carry this pregnancy through to the bitter end.

Now, that end was here. Sliding in and out of consciousness, Miranda flashed through the possibilities she’d spent months preparing herself for. Maybe her babies would be born dead, so deformed the doctors wouldn’t show them to her. Maybe they’d live for a few hours. Maybe they’d be strong enough to go to the neonatal intensive care unit. Maybe she’d at least get to say hello and goodbye, a cataclysm of joy and grief she wasn’t sure she would ever recover from.

*snip*


There are no "exceptions". Abortion restrictions are bans.

[redqueen]

1. K&R

This country just keeps going backwards.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Thank you for posting this. We need to see the horror. nt

[housecat]

3. Burning "witches" is next if we don't get our shit together and stop magats.

[CaptainTruth]

4. This is torture, period. Anyone who tortures women is a terrorist, period.

GOP politicians are terrorists, period.

[cstanleytech]

36. I wonder if approaching anti abortion laws as cruel and unusual in the Courts might work.

It would force the 6 Conservative Republican judges on SCOTUS to go on record as supporting such a thing or agreeing that its wrong.

[ratchiweenie]

39. I think you might be right.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. This story is really sickening

Link to tweet

[SunSeeker]

6. K & R for exposure of GOP barbarism.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. But they love their executions.

[Evolve Dammit]

23. Don't they though? Domestic terrorists

[Lonestarblue]

8. Forcing women to go through nightmares like this is unconscionable.

And what about the pain of tiny beings struggling to breathe for four hours is acceptable? I truly hate Republicans for this.

[DFW]

10. They are unfeeling sadists

Reveling in the suffering of others, and going home with "clean" consciences (as long as they never are forced to look upon their handywork), with a permanent get-out-of-conscience-jail-free card supplied by their local God Squad.

[lastlib]

9. "Pro-lifers" are barbaric MONSTERS.

K&R for exposure.

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[Jarqui]

11. No words .. nt

[Chi67]

12. OMG

Read the whole article. So unbelievably sad what that family had to go through!

[yardwork]

13. Kick for visibility.

[COL Mustard]

14. I've known parents who lost children

It’s not something you ever get over, no matter their age. I really feel for women in this type of situation. It’s barbaric to force someone to go through this

[Greybnk48]

15. This story is gut-wrenching.

I shared in on facebook so the anti-abortion people can get a taste of their handiwork first hand.

[moonshinegnomie]

17. im sharing it to abbots twitter page

[Greybnk48]

18. Well done!! n/t

[moonshinegnomie]

20. and dan patricks too

[NotHardly]

16. Republicans, famous for inflicting pain & suffering on women

[TygrBright]

19. For the GOP, the cruelty is the point. n/t

[Hekate]

21. Absolutely barbaric

[iluvtennis]

22. Agree with the poster above, this is torture. Evil bastards. n/t

[Evolve Dammit]

24. Agreed

[keithbvadu2]

25. Pro-life to conservatives/republicans is a myth.

Republicans are in favor of killing living babies and have done so.

Pro-life to conservatives/republicans is a myth.

The supposed pro-lifers cared naught when the state of Texas (republican gov, republican Prez) deliberately killed living baby Sun Hudson against the mother's wishes because he was an inconvenience to the state.

It is not a matter of life to the supposed pro-lifers.

It is a matter of control.

[niyad]

26. May all involved receive everything they deserve.

[Solly Mack]

27. And those who support this brutal treatment will claim Miranda Michel's story is a positive.

They will call this a blessing. A "win" for "life".

Sick fucks.

[SouthernDem4ever]

28. The anti-abortion crowd doesn't care

They love suffering in all it's forms - especially when somebody else is suffering.

[shrike3]

30. You're right, I fear.

[Johonny]

29. GOP is not a reality based party

They don't care about your pain.

[jfz9580m]

38. No they are not.nt

[UpInArms]

31. Their story ripped my heart apart

No one should endure this.

I thought I could not despise the USSC more. I find that I do.

I thought I could not despise the Reich wing more. I find that I do.

[MLAA]

32. Heart breaking. Sadist, misogynistic republicans.

[kacekwl]

33. When am I going to see this story and

others like it on 20/20 or 60 minutes etc. And tell the truth about Republicans and the disgusting evil and hate they bring to the country. The media is guilty of enabling the Republican terrorism and should be ashamed and nobody should watch or support them in any way.

[pansypoo53219]

34. BUTBUTBUT ALL BABIES ARE GERBER BABIES! genetic shit. more early miscarrages take care of oppsies.

this oopsy didn't abort on its own.

[Duppers]

35. This wasn't that uncommon.

I cannot post about my experience but after 40yrs I'm still much too bitter, with doctors and with a family member.

Oh, and fuck religious idiots.

[jfz9580m]

37. Dark ages thinking

Child-bearing is a woman's primary if not sole function I guess.